Talk:Aegipan

The Great God Pan

Since you feel the need to include one of those worthless subsections aspergeroidally listing trivial pop-culture references because no Wikipedia article is complete without one, but unfortunately the only post-medieval example you can think of is a casual mention of the word in a Poe story that doesn't involve classical mythology at all, might I suggest that you add Arthur Machen's tale "The Great God Pan"?

At one point somebody examines horrifying drawings of "Fauns and Satyrs and Ægipans" which he later discovers were drawn from life by someone who had actually met the mythical servitors of Pan. I consulted this entry because I was reading that tale and I didn't know what ægipans were. Although they don't directly appear in the story, it establishes that they really exist and take part in orgies too terrible to describe involving some of the main characters. Isn't that a better example than a story in which they feature only as an item on a list of things a certain person likes to read about in very old books? 31.51.234.243 (talk) 15:13, 9 April 2024 (UTC)